Rule number 5 - Plausible deniability is your greatest ally (so far at least for Kiffin). The alleged rogue assistant is already out of coaching. We don't know about Rule number 6 whether a burn phone was used by Garza and/or Kiffin, but it looks someone blew it on the rest:

1 Always pay cash

2 Nothing in writing

3 Everyone gets paid (need to do more than just reimburse Will Lyles it would seem)

Could be. Apparently this is a new investigation/allegation independent of Lane Kiffin. Therefore, the fact that UT purged the athletic department isn't supposed to have any effect. It looks like we might get hit pretty good because of this.

University of Tom Brady, B.A. '10; University of Peyton Manning, J.D. '13.

You very well could be right. You wouldn't know if by living in Knoxville, though. The largest Union monument in the South is in Knoxville and native Knoxvillians are generally proud of their pro-Union hisotry.

University of Tom Brady, B.A. '10; University of Peyton Manning, J.D. '13.

Who would've guessed even 6 months ago that the two words "Yahoo Sports" would send chills down the backs of all programs operating outside of NCAA law. Those dudes have become serious investigative journalists and are seemingly taking down the renegades one violation at a time.

"Whatever undercover dirty stuff that they’re doing, I’m pretty sure that Willie Lyles is not the only person. He’s just the only one that’s been caught. This is something that they’ve been doing forever.”

Even the moms knows more about the state of CFB than the almighty NCAA. they can only keep their head in the sand for so much longer. But the longer they do i worry the bigger the storm is going to be.

They won't need to ban Kiffin, since he is a pretty mediocre coach. USC might have some problems internally, but they are not going to settle for the poor product he sends out there, regardless of his recruiting accumen,